Entrepreneurial Orientation and Business Performance: An Assessment of past Research and Suggestions for the Future

By Andreas Rauch, Johan Wiklund, G. Lumpkin, Michael Frese. 2009

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Turning Agents into Psychological Principals: Aligning Interests of Non‐Owners Through Psychological Ownership (2013, neutral): “Similarly, entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has been conceptualized in terms of five dimensions that characterize and distinguish key entrepreneurial processes at the firm level and that provide the basis for entrepreneurial decisions and actions (Lumpkin and Dess, 1996; Rauch et al., 2009).”
Conceptualization of SMEs’ business resilience: A systematic literature review (2021, background): “Following Lumpkin and Dess (1996), several researchers have examined EO interaction with other various resources of companies and their effects on business success (Rauch et al., 2009; Stam & Elfring, 2008).”
Entrepreneurial Behavior in Organizations: Does Job Design Matter? (2015, background): “The entrepreneurial orientation literature defines risk taking as taking bold actions by venturing into the unknown, borrowing heavily, and/or committing significant resources to ventures in unknown environments (Rauch et al., 2009).”
The influence of firm age and intangible resources on the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and firm growth among Japanese SMEs (2013, methodology): “The moderating role of firm age EO studies often include firm age in their specified research models, although most frequently as a statistical control variable (Rauch et al., 2009).”
Resource orchestration in family firms: investigating how entrepreneurial orientation, generational involvement, and participative strategy affect performance (2011, methodology): “…defi nition, EO has developed as a fi rm-level concept, and ‘three dimensions of EO have been identifi ed and used consistently in the literature’ (Rauch et al., 2009: 763), thus refl ecting the fi rm’s tendency toward product innovation, proactiveness, and risk-taking behaviors (e.g., Covin…”
In Pursuit of Greatness: CEO Narcissism, Entrepreneurial Orientation, and Firm Performance Variance (2013, neutral): “, 2011), CEOs often promote a firm-level entrepreneurial orientation (EO) within the organizations they lead (Rauch et al., 2009).”
Entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance: the mediating role of functional performances (2018, background): “In literature, EO is consistently found to have a positive overall effect on firm performance (Wang, 2008; Rauch et al., 2009; Rosenbusch et al., 2013).”
Entrepreneurial Orientation and International Scope: The Differential Roles of Innovativeness, Proactiveness, and Risk-Taking (2014, background): “…evidence showing low correlations – and even lack of co-variation – between the three dimensions (Kreiser et al., 2002), which suggests that it may be “more appropriate to study antecedences and consequences of entrepreneurial orientation at the level of the dimensions” (Rauch et al., 2009: 779).”
Supplying large firms: The role of entrepreneurial and dynamic capabilities in small businesses (2012, background): “Hence, small firms that demonstrate essential entrepreneurial capabilities can engage in strategy-making processes that provide them with a ‘basis for entrepreneurial decisions and actions’ (Rauch et al., 2009: 762).”